Collaborative Research Through Stories: A Case of Narrative Socio-Analysis in New York City

Abstract

Based on a collaborative research experience with Mexican women emigrated to New York initiated in 2016, this article offers an analytical approach to the praxis of Socioanalysis and Collaborative Ethnography. One of the most creative axes of this research project is the creation of a radio soap based on the outcomes of the research activity. By working with fictional storytelling women are exploring discourses, representations and imaginaries related to the “migrant” identity and communicating their exploration in a more innovative and powerful language than the rigid academic code. Through a creative overflowing of some of the dominant patterns in social research, the project is exploring a practical questioning of both the systemic modes of conception of the migrant phenomenon and the social research itself. A key ingredient in this methodological proposal is the development of an affectionate group activity whose purpose is both the production of knowledges and the collective construction of affection and care.